Tipp prepare for defining times

04 September 2016

Four months and 27 games later it's down to just two contenders in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship. Kilkenny and Tipperary will battle it out for the Liam MacCarthy Cup in the final at Croke Park.

They last met in the final in 2014 when Kilkenny won a dramatic replay.

But Tipp Captain Brendan Maher says they won't let that losing record against Kilkenny bother them.

"What has happened in the past isn't going to define us. We're still in the middle of our careers.

"If this happens for another five years, where we don't win an All-Ireland for five years then it will define us but at the moment we're still in the middle, we're at the peak of our years," said Maher.

"I'm 27 years of age, so I hope I still have a few years left in me so I don't think we're going to be defined by that, and we're going to do everything to make sure we're not."

Throw-in today is 3.30pm, before that, Limerick take on Tipperary in the All-Ireland Minor Hurling Final at 1:15pm.